In the past dynasties, gifts given by men to women were both practical and symbolic. In the Qing dynasty, four saddled horses, ten pairs of armor, one hundred pieces of satin and two hundred pieces of cloth were given as gifts for the emperor's wedding. Shunzhi Chao has 1 gold teapot (teapot for drinking milk tea, also known as multi-wood pot among the people) and two silver pots.
The ceremony of accepting talents was followed by the banquet of accepting talents. The reception of the Qing emperor's wedding changed the relationship between host and guest. It was not the queen's parents who gave a banquet for the envoys sent by the emperor, but the emperor sent ministers to represent him and give the banquet to the queen's parents.
The wedding ceremony is the climax of the emperor's wedding. Only through this ceremony can the two sides establish the relationship between husband and wife. Its procedures include the ceremony of welcoming and tying the knot, as well as the custom of sitting on the account and crossing the brazier saddle.
The phoenix used by the Qing emperor to marry the queen is not a red sedan chair like the people, but a bright yellow sedan chair dedicated to the emperor, with no word "hi" on it. When the queen enters the palace by phoenix, she must put the word "dragon" in the phoenix in advance.
The queen wore a red silk veil embroidered with dragons and phoenixes on her head. When Feng entered the palace, she held the golden double happiness "Ruyi" in one hand and the apple in the other, which was homophonic, safe and happy.
The emperor's "home" arrived at the Gan Qing Gate, so the queen got off the sedan chair in Gan Qing Palace, handed the wishful and apples in her hand, and then crossed the brazier with a gold vase before entering the temple. When she arrived at the bridal chamber, she had to cross the saddle before the ceremony could be held.
In the wedding ceremony, it is the wedding ceremony that truly represents men and women becoming husband and wife. Wedding ceremony is the source of modern toast.
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The wedding ceremony of the Qing emperor was not established at the beginning. When Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty married Ye He, he only led Baylor to marry the bride and held a big banquet. There was no fixed ceremony. After the establishment of Emperor Taizong of Qing Dynasty, only one ceremony was held, but the wedding of the emperor was not decided. In the eighth year of Shunzhi, the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty got married, and then the Emperor Hou Yi was established.
There are six rituals in the folk marriage in Qing Dynasty, which are called "accepting gifts", "asking names", "accepting oneself", "accepting levies", "inviting parties" and "welcoming relatives". Different from folk weddings, the emperor's wedding doesn't need to ask the name, Najib and the date of invitation, and it is impossible for the emperor to meet him in person (the general task is to make him popular), so the most important thing for the emperor's wedding is to accept the recruitment (which the royal family calls the big recruitment).
Before the wedding envoy comes to be canonized, the queen's ceremonial ceremony will wait in the official residence. When the wedding envoy arrives, the Queen's father will lead his relatives to meet him outside the door in royal robes, and the Queen herself will meet him in court. The queen's mother and family will also kneel in the court in royal robes, waiting for the envoys to enter the canonization. After that, drum music and ceremonial ceremonies led the way, followed by Empress Che Feng, who entered the palace through a middle door and went to the outer steps of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and the Empress went down to the palace.
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